Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle
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The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
was held on July 26 with the heats and July 27 with the final.
No new world or competition records were set during this competition.
Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
The Swimming portion of the 2011 FINA World Championships was held July 24–31 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. Swimming is one of five aquatic disciplines at the championships.-Qualifying criteria:...
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
2011 World Aquatics Championships
The 14th FINA World Championships were held at July 16–31, 2011 in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The 2011 World Championships featured five aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving, open water, and synchronised swimming...
was held on July 26 with the heats and July 27 with the final.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record Championship record |
Zhang Lin Zhang Lin (swimmer) Zhang Lin is a Chinese swimmer specializing in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events. He is China's most successful male swimmer.Zhang, who began swimming at six, is China's fastest freestyle swimmer. He was selected for the national team in 2002... |
7:32.12 | Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... |
July 29, 2009 |
No new world or competition records were set during this competition.
Heats
51 swimmers participated in 7 heats.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Sun Yang Sun Yang Sun Yang is an Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer from China. He swam for China at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record; this swim and his two other medals at the Games were cited in his being named the Rookie of the Year... |
7:45.29 | Q | |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | Pál Joensen Pál Joensen Pál Joensen is a Faroese elite swimmer. He was born in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Pál is training in a short pool 25 m, because there is no 50 m pool in the Faroe Islands. Pál Joensen still lives in his hometown Vágur, and he is training with Susvim... |
7:45.55 | Q, NR | |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Cochrane Ryan Cochrane (swimmer) Ryan Andrew Cochrane is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Cochrane is an Olympic bronze medalist as well as the reigning double gold medalist in both the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. He holds multiple world championship medals... |
7:45.57 | Q | |
| 4 | 6 | 3 | Gergő Kis Gergo Kis Gergő Kis is a Hungarian freestyle swimmer.Kis participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500 m freestyle, ranking 23rd in the heats... |
7:48.33 | Q, NR | |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | Oussama Mellouli Oussama Mellouli Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately.... |
7:48.86 | Q | |
| 6 | 7 | 6 | Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay is an American middle-distance freestyle swimmer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist.-Personal life:... |
7:49.13 | Q | |
| 7 | 6 | 4 | Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault is a male freestyle swimmer from France, who competed for his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.- References :*... |
7:49.43 | Q | |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | Chad La Tourette | 7:49.94 | Q | |
| 9 | 6 | 5 | Samuel Pizzetti | 7:51.59 | ||
| 10 | 7 | 3 | Job Kienhuis Job Kienhuis Job Kienhuis is a Dutch swimmer who mainly specializes in the middle- and long freestyle events. He is currently training under the guidance of former worldchampion Marcel Wouda alongside olympic champion Hinkelien Schreuder. He is the owner of three national records, two in Long Course 800 m and... |
7:52.63 | ||
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplines 400 metre freestyle and the 1500 metre freestyle. His swimming club is Vallensbæk-VAT but he trains at the National Training Center in Copenhagen.-References:... |
7:54.57 | ||
| 12 | 5 | 6 | Dai Jun | 7:54.63 | ||
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Ryan Napoleon Ryan Napoleon Ryan Napoleon is an Australian freestyle swimmer and Commonwealth Games Medalist.-Career:Napoleon won gold in the 4x200m freestyle, silver in the 4x100m medley relay and bronze in the 100m butterfly whilst representing Australia at the Youth Olympic Festival.At the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games... |
7:56.84 | ||
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Yohsuke Miyamoto | 7:57.13 | ||
| 15 | 7 | 5 | Christian Kubusch | 7:58.20 | ||
| 16 | 6 | 8 | Juan Martin Pereyra | 7:59.06 | NR | |
| 17 | 6 | 6 | Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo is an Italian freestyle swimmer.In 2006, Colbertaldo was Junior European Champion in 400 m freestyle and won the silver medal in 200 m and 1500 m of the same stroke.... |
8:01.10 | ||
| 18 | 7 | 7 | Heerden Herman | 8:01.79 | ||
| 19 | 4 | 6 | Anton Goncharov | 8:02.07 | ||
| 20 | 5 | 1 | Mark Randall | 8:02.45 | ||
| 21 | 7 | 8 | Sergiy Frolov | 8:03.87 | ||
| 22 | 4 | 4 | David Brandl | 8:05.66 | ||
| 23 | 3 | 2 | Mateo de Angulo | 8:05.98 | NR | |
| 24 | 4 | 3 | Uladzimir Zhyharau | 8:06.04 | ||
| 25 | 5 | 7 | Gergely Gyurta | 8:06.14 | ||
| 26 | 2 | 7 | Jan Karel Petric | 8:07.78 | ||
| 27 | 6 | 1 | Evgeny Kulikov | 8:08.54 | ||
| 28 | 7 | 1 | Nikolay Bulakhov | 8:08.78 | ||
| 29 | 4 | 7 | Mohamed Farhoud | 8:10.35 | ||
| 30 | 4 | 2 | Daniel Delgadillo Faisal | 8:10.82 | ||
| 31 | 4 | 8 | Jang Sang-Jin | 8:11.94 | ||
| 32 | 3 | 5 | Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Andrés Monasterio Guimaraes is a Venezuelan international swimmer who represented his native country in the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.Monasterio was born in Caracas, Venezuela... |
8:12.16 | ||
| 33 | 4 | 5 | Florian Janistyn | 8:12.90 | ||
| 34 | 5 | 8 | Dylan Dunlop-Barrett | 8:13.06 | ||
| 35 | 3 | 4 | Ventsislav Aydarski | 8:13.07 | ||
| 36 | 3 | 1 | Stefan Sorak | 8:14.45 | NR | |
| 37 | 3 | 6 | Christian Bayo | 8:17.02 | ||
| 38 | 3 | 3 | Esteban Enderica | 8:17.22 | ||
| 39 | 2 | 6 | Anton Sveinn McKee | 8:17.83 | ||
| 40 | 2 | 2 | Kevin Soow Choy Yeap | 8:18.79 | NR | |
| 41 | 4 | 1 | Květoslav Svoboda Kvetoslav Svoboda Květoslav Svoboda is a freestyle swimmer from the Czech Republic, who won the silver medal in the 400m Freestyle at the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships behind Australia's Grant Hackett. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in... |
8:20.41 | ||
| 42 | 3 | 7 | Ullalmath Gagan | 8:21.90 | NR | |
| 43 | 3 | 8 | Nezir Karap | 8:23.37 | ||
| 44 | 2 | 8 | Erazmo Marsanic | 8:23.53 | ||
| 45 | 2 | 5 | Sobitjon Amilov | 8:27.35 | ||
| 46 | 2 | 3 | Marko Blazevski | 8:27.39 | ||
| 47 | 2 | 1 | Pavol Jelenak | 8:28.07 | ||
| 48 | 2 | 4 | Zhen Ren Teo | 8:28.67 | ||
| 49 | 1 | 5 | Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou | 8:38.93 | ||
| 50 | 1 | 4 | Pavel Naroshkin | 8:44.06 | ||
| 51 | 1 | 3 | Heimanu Sichan | 9:00.87 |
Final
The final was held at 18:41.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Sun Yang Sun Yang Sun Yang is an Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer from China. He swam for China at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record; this swim and his two other medals at the Games were cited in his being named the Rookie of the Year... |
7:38.57 | |||
| 3 | Ryan Cochrane Ryan Cochrane (swimmer) Ryan Andrew Cochrane is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Cochrane is an Olympic bronze medalist as well as the reigning double gold medalist in both the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. He holds multiple world championship medals... |
7:41.86 | NR | ||
| 6 | Gergő Kis Gergo Kis Gergő Kis is a Hungarian freestyle swimmer.Kis participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500 m freestyle, ranking 23rd in the heats... |
7:44.94 | NR | ||
| 4 | 2 | Oussama Mellouli Oussama Mellouli Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately.... |
7:45.99 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Pál Joensen Pál Joensen Pál Joensen is a Faroese elite swimmer. He was born in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Pál is training in a short pool 25 m, because there is no 50 m pool in the Faroe Islands. Pál Joensen still lives in his hometown Vágur, and he is training with Susvim... |
7:46.51 | ||
| 6 | 8 | Chad La Tourette | 7:46.52 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay is an American middle-distance freestyle swimmer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist.-Personal life:... |
7:46.64 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault is a male freestyle swimmer from France, who competed for his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.- References :*... |
7:55.91 |
External links
- 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 800 metre freestyle start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.